Students are currently participating in the Community Bonding phase of the program where they become familiar with the open source projects they will be working with. They also spend time learning the codebase and the community’s best practices so they can start their 12 week coding projects on May 14th.

Each year we like to share program statistics about the GSoC program and the accepted students and mentors involved in the program. Here are a few stats:

88.2% of the accepted students are participating in their first GSoC

74.4% of the students are first time applicants

Degrees

76.18% of accepted students are undergraduates, 17.5% are masters students, and 6.3% are getting their PhDs.

We have students in a variety of majors including neuroscience, linguistics, typography, and music technologies.

Countries

This year there are four students that are the first to be accepted into GSoC from their home countries of Kosovo (three students) and Senegal. A complete list of accepted students and their countries is below:

Country

Students

Country

Students

Country

Students

Argentina

5

Hungary

7

Russian Federation

35

Australia

10

India

605

Senegal

1

Austria

14

Indonesia

3

Serbia

1

Bangladesh

3

Ireland

1

Singapore

8

Belarus

3

Israel

2

Slovak Republic

2

Belgium

3

Italy

24

South Africa

1

Brazil

19

Japan

7

South Korea

2

Bulgaria

2

Kosovo

3

Spain

21

Cameroon

14

Latvia

1

Sri Lanka

41

Canada

31

Lithuania

5

Sweden

6

China

52

Malaysia

2

Switzerland

5

Croatia

3

Mauritius

1

Taiwan

3

Czech Republic

4

Mexico

4

Trinidad and Tobago

1

Denmark

1

Morocco

2

Turkey

8

Ecuador

4

Nepal

1

Uganda

1

Egypt

12

Netherlands

6

Ukraine

6

Finland

3

Nigeria

6

United Kingdom

28

France

22

Pakistan

5

United States

104

Germany

53

Poland

3

Venezuela

1

Greece

16

Portugal

10

Vietnam

4

Hong Kong

3

Romania

10

There were a record number of students submitting proposals for the program this year -- 5,199 students from 101 countries.

In our next GSoC statistics post we will delve deeper into the schools, gender breakdown, mentors, and registration numbers for the 2018 program.